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Regurgitation, in medicine, the backward
movement of blood, food, bile, etc., in the
body; thus food may regurgitate from the
stomach to the mouth.

Rehan (originally, Crehan), Ada (1860-
1916), American actress, born in Limerick,
Ireland. She joined Augustin Daly's New
Vork company in 1879 and continued under
his management until his death. She achieved
especial fame in Shakespearean parts and as
Peggy in The Country Girl,

Reich, Germany, an empire 1871-1919; a
federated state, 1919-1933; a Fascist totali-
tarian state since 1933, The Reichstag is its
legislative assembly.

Reichenbach, town, Silesia, Prussia. The
Prussians defeated the Austrians here in 1762,
and the treaty that formed the nucleus of the
Grand Alliance against Napoleon i. was
signed here in 1813; p. 17,000.

Reichenbach, Karl, Baron von (1788-
1869), a German physicist. He discovered pa-
raffin and creosote, and maintained the exist-
ence of an imponderable agent, which he
called Od, and which he supposed to be wide-
ly diffused in nature. Among his chief works
are Researches on Magnetism (1874), and
Odisch-magnetische Briefe (1852).

Reid, Sir George (1841-1913), Scottish
portrait painter. The original drawings of his
illustrations to The Tweed from Us Source
are in the Edinburgh National Gallery. In
later years he devoted himself to portraiture.

Reid, George Agnew (1861- ), Ca-
nadian artist. At the Chicago World's Fair of
1893 he received a medal for 'The Foreclosure
of the Mortgage/

Reid, John (1721-1807), British general,
originally named Robertson. He became the
owner of several thousand acres of land in
Vermont, on which he erected mills and also
improved in many other ways, but these were
taken by New England settlers in 1774.

Reid, Mayne, originally Thomas Mayne
Reid (1818-83), Irish writer of books of
sport and adventure. He produced a great
number of books for boys which made him
famous, including The Rifle Rangers (1850),
The Scalp Hunters (1851), The Headless
Horseman (1866), and The War Trail (1857).

Reid, Robert (1862-1929), American fig-
ure and mural painter, born in Stockbridge,
Mass. His decorative designs, which are not-
able for bold drawing and rich color, are to
be seen in the Library of Congress in Wash-
ington, the Appellate Court House and Paul-
ist Fathers' Church in New York City, and
the Massachusetts State House in Bostonl

Reid, Sir Robert Gillespie (1840-1908),
Canadian capitalist, born in Pertshire, Scot-
land. He went to the U. S. in 1871 to as-
sume control of the building of the Interna-
tional Bridge across the Niagara River. Sub-
sequently he contracted for and undertook
the erection of several other important brid-
ges, including the bridge across the Colorado
River at Austin, Texas (1880); International
Railway Bridge between Texas and Mexico,
across the Rio Grande (1882); and the Lich-
ine Bridge, three-quarters of a mile long
(1886). He built the greater part of the Ca-
nadian Pacific Railway n. of Lake Superior.

Reid, Samuel Chester (1783-1861), Am-
erican privateersman, born in Norwich, Conn.
During the War of 1812 he commanded the
privateer General Armstrong and harassed
British commerce. He is said to have sug-
gested the present plan of the American flag
by which the stripes remained permanently
thirteen instead of increasing with every new
state.

Reid, Thomas (1710-96), Scottish philos-
opher. In 1780 he devoted himself to the
production of his Essays on the Intellectual
and Active Powers of Man (1785 and 1788),
His earlier Inquiry into the Human Mind ap-
peared in 1764. Reid was the foremost ex-
ponent' of the Scottish philosophy, or the
philosophy of common sense.

Reid, Whitelaw (1837-1912), American
journalist and diplomat, was born in Xenia,
0. After two years' experience as a cotton-
planter, he joined the editorial staff of the
New York Tribune, of which he became man-
aging editor in 1869, and editor-in-chief and
principal proprietor in 1872. He twice de-
clined the appointment of U. S. minister to
Germany, but was minister to France in
1889-92, and Ambassador to Great Britain,
1905-12.

Reid, Mrs. Whitelaw (1858-1931), was
born in New York City. She was Elizabeth,
only daughter of Darius Ogden Mills, Calif-
ornia pioneer and financier. She was married
to Whitelaw Reid in 1881. A son and daugh-
ter were born to them — Ogden Mills Reid,
president of the company which publishes the
New York Her old-Tribune t and Jean, wife
of the Hon. Sir John H. Ward, second son
of the first Earl of Dudley. Mrs. Reid
achieved a world-wide renown for her muni-
ficent philanthropy. She founded the Ameri-
can1 Arts Students* Club in Paris, and for
more than a quarter of a century was presi-
dent of the New York House and School of
Industry.